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CCL issues State of Learning in Canada: No Time for Complacency
Dr. Paul Cappon launched CCL’s first annual report on the State of Learning in Canada in Vancouver today, during BC’s Family Literacy Week. Prepared by CCL in collaboration with its five knowledge centres, this report provides an unprecedented overview of the current state of learning in Canada from early childhood through to the senior years. It reveals where our strengths and weaknesses lie, and where more information is needed.
Literacy is the focus of a special feature in the report, providing insight into the level of literacy in Canada and the role literacy plays in an individual’s quality of life and in the maintenance of an equitable, democratic and prosperous society. Read news release »
Funded research proposals on Work and Learning now online
CCL is pleased to announce that it is funding 10 projects in response to its request for research proposals on work and learning. The successful projects are now posted on the CCL website.
Northern coordinator appointed for the Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre
Maria Wilson will assume the role of coordinator for the Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre to serve Northern Canada–the Inuvialuit Settlement Region (Northwest Territories), Nunavut, Nunavik (northern Quebec), and Nunatsiavut (northern Labrador) and other interested parties in the northern region. She is based in the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami office in Ottawa.
CCL manages project to examine work–study opportunities in New Brunswick
At the invitation of the New Brunswick Department of Post-Secondary Education, Training and Labour, CCL’s Research and Knowledge Mobilization Directorate has agreed to manage a research project investigating factors affecting engagement in work and learning opportunities at the secondary, post-secondary, and post-baccalaureate levels. Julie Bélanger, Research Analyst at CCL, will provide conceptual and methodological direction to the project, which will be carried out by graduate student interns. Given its focus on the relationship between work and learning, CCL hopes to learn lessons from the situation in New Brunswick that will be useful to those interested in similar opportunities elsewhere in Canada. A report on the investigation is expected in June 2007.
CCL research scientist collaborates on research with implications for addressing behaviour problems
The study, published in the Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, was authored by Zohreh Zadeh, Canadian Council on Learning, Nancie Im-Bolter, Trent University – Department of Psychology, and Nancy J. Cohen, Hincks-Dellcrest Centre/University of Toronto – Department of Psychiatry. Their findings point to the nature of the relationship between language, social cognition, and externalizing behaviour problems such as hyperactivity and conduct disorders in children. According to the investigators, “Collaborative work across disciplines or areas of expertise is needed to understand how a particular deficit in language might impact treatment and to seek ways to adapt treatment. At the simplest level, ensuring that children have the necessary structural language skills to participate in social cognitive interventions is essential.” Read the research material »
CCL researcher part of team to study language impairment and reading disability
Canadian Council on Learning Associate Research Scientist, Zohreh Zadeh, joins Nancie Im-Bolter, Assistant Professor at Trent University and researchers Nancy Cohen and Fataneh Farnia at the University of Toronto’s Hincks-Dellcrest Centre to investigate the relationship between language impairment and reading disability. The study, supported by the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network, will help to shed light on how language and cognitive processes affect the development of literacy in children diagnosed with language impairment and in children diagnosed with a reading disability.
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